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Gloves of skin, with the exception of boxing-gloves, which are comprised in Class V Dutch batiste, light tissue (" claiin'), knitted goods, zephyr, lawn, tarlatan, muslin, and all other fine linen or cotton tissues, made up into articles such as frills, ruches, infants' caps skirts, cuffs, chemisettes, and other similar articles and adornments not mentioned in other classes. Precious stones, pearls, and jewellery; articles wholly or in part of gold or silver; watches of any material, watch cases, jewellery cases and similar articles, even when imported separately. Books and albums, bound in velvet, silk, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, ivory, Russian leather, or with gilt or silver ornaments. Handkerchiefs of linen, or of linen mixed with cotton. Bookbindings, imported separately, and removable book covers, Feathers for hats and bonnets and other similar uses, and hearse plumes imported separately from the hearses. Silk, pure or mixed with other materials, and tissues of other materials mixed with silk. Cloth or tissues of all kinds, mixed or embroi. dered with gold or silver, real or imitation, with the exception of church ornaments or ecclesiastical vestments comprised in Class VII. Stuffs and tissues of wool mixed with cotton, made up as mosquito nets, hangings, cartains, and other articles not elsewhere mentioned. Tobacco, manulactured and prepared in any fo:m, not otherwise mentioned. To this Class belong cigarettes rolled in tobacco leaf.

Class IX.-GOODS WHICH PAY 20 BOLIVARS PER KILOGRAMME: Placards, showcards, and handbills, printed or lithographed. Cigarette wrappers. Boots and shoes, and tanned skins cut out prepared for boots and shoes. Circulars, printed or lithographed ; labels of all kinds, printed or lithographed, which are not attached to any article; printed visiting cards, with or without coloured designs. Fine and common cloths, cassimere, satin, knitted goods, flannel, alpaca, “cambron," bombazine, serge, lasting, and damask, of wool or of wool mixed with cotton, made up as men's clothing. Envelopes of all kinde, finished or only cut out. Hats, bonnets, and caps, trimmed, of every kind, for women and children. Hats of black silk plush, with high crowns, and similar hats of any material, including opera hats : hats simply cut out; hats of fulled felt, and all other kinds of hats, wholly or partially finished, excepting those of straw or its imitations. Advertising cards, large, printed or lithographed Iarlatan, silk, wool, batiste of holland, light tissue ("clarin"), zephyr, lawn, muslin, and all other tissues of linen or cotton made up into ladies' wearing apparel. Men's clothing of wool, linen, or cotton, with the exception of that mentioned in other classes.

THE IMPORTATION OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES is Prohibitet). Cocoanut oil, starch, indigo, cocoa, coffee, molasses from sugar and honey, salted jerked meat, salt, sarsaparilla roots, silver, nickel, or copper money, and apparatus for coining money, unless imported for the Government mint.

FREE LIST. Articles importe i by order of the Government. Live animals, with the exception of leechesi Iron boiler plates, botioms of boilers, gratings, rollers and apparatus for crushing cane, also axles and frames for the same, and native iron and scrap iron for re-smelting. Ploughs and ploughshares; hoes, spades; sickles, billhooks, and scythes ; weeding hooks, hatchets, shovels, picks; "tasies" and cutlasses with or without wooden handles, and machetes for lopping. Mineral coal; carbons for electric light ; acetylene gas and trisulphate of lime: Barbed iron wire for fences and also hooks for fastening the same, as shown in the cliché contained in the Ordinance of June 13, 1894. Persona effects of Ministers and those of Diplomatic Agents of the Republic on their return to Venezuela. Baggage brought by pas. sengers, with the exception of those articles which have not been used, and of furniture which will pay according to the class to which it belongs, subject to a rebate proportional to the deterioration which it may have suffered from use. The duty leviable on unused articles imported together with baggage shall be increased by 20 per cent., and if they come from the West Indies they shall pay 30 per cent. additional. Ice imported, by permission of the Gov. ernment, into localities where no ice factories exiit. Printing presses and other typographica accessories such as type, lines, prepared printing ink, and white printing paper, neither sized nor gummed ; also paper paste for manufacturing stereotype plates, and aluminium employed for stereotype printing. Machinery for use in agriculture, mines, weaving, saw mills, foundries, not otherwise mentioned ; also machines intended for the arts and trades when a manufacturer imports them himself, after having justified the use he intends to make of them and having obtained previous permission from the Government. Parts imported for the purpose of repairing sugar mills and agricultural machinery are also included in this Class. Samples of tissues in small strips in quantities not exceeding 25 kilogrammes, and of wall paper not exceeding 50 centimetres in length, or of all other articles when they are imported in such dimensions and under such conditions as to be unsaleable, Legal gold coin. Products of Columbia imported across the frontier of the country provided reciprocity exists. Articles in which goods exempt from duty are imported, such as trunks, Gladstone tags, portfolios, blankets or cloths which are not thereby deteriorated in value, shall be weighed apart, and shall pay the duty to which they are respectively liable.

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TONNAGE IN THE FOREIGN TRADE. Tonnage of Vessels entered and cleared with CARGOES to and from Foreign countries and British Possessions during 1904.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Russia :

Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Northern Ports

868,358 707,021 1,346,634 1,190,914 2,214,992 ' 1,897,935 Southern Ports

1,054,417 157,463 164,770 86,752 1,219,187! (244,215 Sweden

380,775 365,092 1,360,332' 1,675,540 1,741, 107 2,040, 632 Norway..

202,903 206,549 1,240,743 970,252 1,443,646 1,176,801 Denmark

89,449 186,170 390,743 1,504,709 480,192 1,690,885 Gerinány

1,592,770 2,374,672 1,019,905 2493,887 2,612,675 4,863,559 Holland

1,290,645 1,288,551 1,331,213 1,286,116 2,621,858 2,574,667 Belgium

1,643,308 | 1,715,511

470,860

665,861 2,114, 168 2,381,372 France

1,832,889 3,185,991 919,588 1,693,821 2,752,477 4,879,812 Spain

1,695,520 984,974 1,409, 115 797,975 3, 104,635' 1,782,949 Portugal

177,184
454,249 87,033 142,123

264,217 596,372 Italy

202,093 2,159,895 49,626' 1,359,293 242,719 3.519, 189 Austria-Hungary

84,760 161,603 68,9:4 233,786 153,674 395,389 Greece

111,872 117,898 94,032 130,175 205,904 248,073 Turkey 321,963 317,368 24,025

55,367
345,988

372.735 Roumania

230,714 94,909 87,623 35,340 318,337 130,249 Egypt 352,716 1,225,954 49,241

100,668 401,957 1,326,622 Algeria

174,771 179,089 57,291 117.237 232,061 296, 326 Portuguese Possessions

} 69,852 in Eastern Africa

255,033

69,852 31,461

286,494 United States of America 6,111,914 4,764,620

759,402 609,081 6,871,316 5,373,70

1 Mexico, Foreign West Indies and Central

163,026

179,776 68,712 114,687 231,733 324,463 America Republic of Colombia 81,541 287,932

2,437

81,541 290, 369 Brazil

168,507 721,740 14,357 93,839 182,864 815,579 Peru

126,008 81,184

11,325

15,291 137,333 96,475 Chili 165,847 273,183 31,873

188,075

197,720 461,258 Uruguay 613 301,200

39,037 10,501 1340,287 Argentine Republic 1,409,153 1,224,123 214,374

85,179

1,623,527 1,309 302 China..

10,887 245,519 15,964 32,992 26,851 278,511 Java

34,615

51,682 42,855 200,637 77,470 252,319 Japan

241,877 278,054 17,886, 35,899 260,763 313,953 Other Countries..

184,423

454,153 571,356 TOTAL FOREIGN 21,169, 241 24,933,944 11,526,183 16,202,904 132,695,424 41,136,848

277, 294 386,933 :76,859

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9,883

TONNAGE IN THE FOREIGN TRADE-continued.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Year ended
December

( 1904 27,807,093 31,893, 297 12,134,804 16,573,067 39,941,897 48,466, 364 1903 27,448,501 31,316,424 12,454,516 16,033,542 39,903,017 47,396,966

Tonnage of British and Foreigo Vessels employed in the COASTING TRADE (distinguishing those employed in the intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland) Entered and Cleared, with Cargoes, at Ports in the

United Kingdom, during the year 1904.

British Foreign British Foreign Vessels Employed in the

Entered. Entered. Cleared. Cleared,